Douglas, The elements of a 'vector space' are not 'vectors' in the physical sense.
The correct Wikipedia page is this one http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euclidean_vector Ganesh On Fri, 15 Oct 2010 11:20:04 -0400, Douglas Theobald <[email protected]> wrote: > As usual, the Omniscient Wikipedia does a pretty good job of giving > the standard mathematical definition of a "vector": > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vector_space#Definition > > If the thing fulfills the axioms, it's a vector. Complex numbers do, > as well as scalars. > > On Oct 15, 2010, at 8:56 AM, David Schuller wrote: > >> On 10/14/10 11:22, Ed Pozharski wrote: >>> Again, definitions are a matter of choice.... >>> There is no "correct" definition of anything. >> >> Definitions are a matter of community choice, not personal choice; i.e. a >> matter of convention. If you come across a short squat animal with split >> hooves rooting through the mud and choose to define it as a "giraffe," you >> will find yourself ignored and cut off from the larger community which >> chooses to define it as a "pig." >> >> -- >> ======================================================================= >> All Things Serve the Beam >> ======================================================================= >> David J. Schuller >> modern man in a post-modern world >> MacCHESS, Cornell University >> [email protected] > > > >
